With a colorful and cheerful celebration, the National High School Programming Contest (NHSPC) 2017 has just turned its curtain down on 8th April 2017 at Krishibid Institute of Bangladesh (KIB), Dhaka. A total number of 1200 winners from 16 regions and upozilas participated in the Gala event.

In the morning at 9 of the clock, the ICT State Minister Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak of the Information and Communication Technology Division of Bangladesh Government inaugurated the ceremony. There he motivated the young kids participants and shared that by 2021, with the prudent leadership of Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Bangladesh will be a Digital Country where the present participants will have to lead it towards the global platform.

The programming contest held in two parts; one at IIT, Dhaka University with the senior students and another one is at Daffodil University, Dhaka with the junior participants. The programming quiz and question-answer session were conducted by Munir Hasan, the General Secretary of BdOSN and Lafifa Jamal, the Chairperson of Robotics and Mechatronics Department, Dhaka University.

The closing ceremony of NHSPC-2017 started at 4pm at KIB with the presence of Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak, State Minister of the ICT Ministry as Chief Guest, Additional Secretary of the ministry Md. Harunur Rashid, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal Sir from SUST and so on.

110 National Winners were awarded the prizes. They will be getting some residential training on Dhaka from where they will be choosing on their performance basis to perform at the International Informatics Olympiad to be held in Tehran, Iran.

This national competition was implemented by Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) with the judging partner CodeMarshal. The relevant information is available atwww.fb.com/nhspc and www.fb.com/groups/nhspc

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) division of the government initiated third edition of computer programming contest for school-goers to inspire in computer learning on March 9 and has been completed 16 regional and 3 upazila events in last one month.

Around twenty thousand students participated in the events in Jessore, Khulna, Dhaka, Comilla, Noakhali, Chittagong, Sylhet, Gopalgonj, Patuakhali, Pabna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dinajpur, Tangail, Mymensingh, Barisal, Saidpur of Nilphamari Singra of Natore and Anowara of Chittagong. The 1,200 winners of the contests will crowd in capital in grade finale.

National-level quiz on programming and award ceremony will be held at Krishibid Institute at Farmegate area and grand finale of programming contest will take place in two different venues of Information Technology Institute of Dhaka University and Daffodil International University.

ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak is scheduled to present at the award ceremony while Additional secretary of ICT Division Harunur Rashid, Prof MuhammdZafor Iqbal, BUET Prof Mohammad Kaykobad and Bangladesh Open Source Network General Secretary MunirHasan attended in different sessions in the day-long event.

Regarding the event, ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak said Bangladesh has taken different initiative to skilled up human resources in computer programming as demand of coder has been increased in pace of time.

“Programming contest at high school level brought a difference experience where we found the unsung coding talents across the country can triumph title if they being nursed well. The contest became a platform of the little plants in programming in Bangladesh,” Palak said.

The junior minister also informed that the Bangladesh team of International Informatix-2017 to be held in Tehran in Iran will be selected from the national winners of the NHSPC-2017.

BDoSN General Secretary Munir Hasan said Bangladesh need ‘a large number’ of programmers to lead the technology-based state in future and NHSPC only contribute to pave the way for young programming talents.

There has been using the international automotive judge engine Code Martial and real time update of the event are published on social media and official internet address of www.nhspc.org.

It’s should be mentioned that ICT division of the government has been organizing the national level contest to develop world-class programme from Bangladesh to lead future challenges. Bangladesh Computer Council and BDoSN are associates while computer science departments of different universities role as local host.

Around 900 students from different schools in Rangpur participated in the regional National High School Programming Contest (NHSPC) arranged at Begum Rokeya University Rangpur on 14th March 2017. To create a programming awareness among the school children, the ICT Division of Bangladesh has been arranging this camp since the last two years.

However, the contest was categorized into two parts: programming and quiz. 69 participants were announced as winners who were handed over certificate and medal by Md. Shorfuddin Ahmed Jhontu, Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation and Md. Saiful Rahman Saif, the additional superintendent of Police, Rangpur.

The vice-chancellor of the university Professor Dr. A.K.M Nur-un-Nabbi encouraged the participants with his good words and urged them to be the leaders of the digital world.

The ICT Division of Bangladesh Government has arranged this initiative for its third time to popularize computer programming among the school children. The winners from the regional contests will participate in the National contest and after a series of selection from there; the students will be awarded to participate in the International Informatics Olympiad.

Bangladesh Open Source Network is the implementation partner while Code Marshal is the judging partner of National High School Programming Contest 2017.